Rape culture remains

2:42 AM,
Jun. 20, 2013

Written by

Rekha Basu

Twenty-one years ago, Grinnell College student Tammy Zywicki, then 21, was driving back to school from her home in New Jersey when her car broke down on an Illinois highway. Her body was found in Missouri nine days later.

I remember thinking what a freak coincidence it was that a predator happened to be driving by just when the young woman developed car troubles. I'm not sure I'd react that way today. We've seen so many abductions, rapes and killings since then that at times - especially lately - it feels as if there's a sexual predator lurking around every corner.